No Obfuscation

Take the following steps to generate the APK and then decompile the source:

1. Compile the WalkieTalkie project.

2. Export the unsigned APK if you’re using an IDE.

3. Run the command dex2jar WalkieTalkieActivity.apk.

4. Run the command jd-gui WalkieTalkieActivity_dex2jar.jar.

Listing 2-2 shows the decompiled code. As you can see, it is very close to the original code in Listing 2-1 except it is missing the comments.

Listing 2-2 Decompiled initializeLocalProfile() code

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public void initializeLocalProfile()  {    if (this.manager == null)      return;    if (this.me != null)      closeLocalProfile();    SharedPreferences localSharedPreferences = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(getBaseContext()); ...

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